26 August 2017

Here is a recent find from dime - a superb concert from Musica Elettronica Viva in 2002. Many thanks to tricko, durian1 and Owombat for making this available, and also to htakat for the great artwork.

This music has made a strong impression on me - it unfolds in a series of tableaux, which are quite different in style, with references to several of the group's known themes, and more - at times, it could almost sound like a remix of Luigi Nono. The whole thing is held together through a strong programmatic propulsiveness - the effect is not dissimilar to reading Joyce's Ulysses.

The break about halfway through is to allow the whole piece to fit onto two CDs - if, like me, most of your music is stored on a hard drive and CDs have become more or less redundant, the two pieces can just be joined together.

To anonymous / Ratel - the number of downloads already exceeds 60, suggesting that most people either prefer a lossless, better quality version, or can easily make their own conversion to mp3 without relying on someone else's effort. For my part, the real 'pity' is the dearth of comments on the music, which makes me question whether the initial effort is really worthwhile.

Flac isn't a problem it took me awhile to figure out how to switch files to mp3 here is a link for a free download when it expires uninstall then reinstall for free http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html > you have to remember uploading and and posting requires alot of work I have done a few on another blog and now know from experience , so I really don't see why it could be a hassle to have to deal with flac files . I do agree with you guys mp3 is easier and I do prefer them , but sometimes this is the way they post and you have to deal Steve

Thanks for the information. I'll try it on my Mac. Tantris: no disrespect intended in asking for MP3s - I was just geeked about hearing this music asap! MEV with Steve Lacy is high level genius, indeed.

there was one point in the first half, lacy started up with some spirals and i thought at first teitelbaum was playing a sample of braxton...! let's not forget mr b. continued listening to lacy (and marsh) long after he stopped listening to other sax players

when this was originally posted at dime last month by user 'tricko' - to whom due credit for making this available should be given - it was a single file -- that is, the whole performance uninterrupted as intended by musicians and as actually broadcast live on italian radio.. it is only later that somebody split the file in two parts, for mere cd-burning reasons, and reposted it as an, er, upgrade... your advice to join the two parts again, hence restoring the artistic integrity of this performance, is a good advice. thank you.

It would be good to have this record of MEV with Steve Lacy available again, for those of us who missed it the first time around! Also the French Radio tapes of the Lacy ensemble with Derek Bailey, if you still have them? Simply invaluable website!

Their performance yesterday evening at the sweltering Noumatroff at Mulhouse was trademark MEV - a series of tableaux, held together by Rzewski's piano, punctuated by all manner of sounds, events, perceptions and imaginings along the way, including, bizarrely enough, Mr Trump being serviced in the shower. Hopefully a recording will emerge in due course - it was being videoed, and it might even appear on France Musique's à l'improviste.

In the meantime, here's this Ferrara concert again to whet our appetite;Mega

Thank you so much for this. And yes, À l'improviste is a radio program very much worth investigating. Anyone can download episodes as podcast and each individual episodes' page often present us with a video of the concert being broadcast and sometimes even in binaural mix for the headphone.

Here is the page for the program, new season will start in a few days...